Leonid Slutsky maintains he will not worry about an uncertain future at the KCOM Stadium, despite seeing his Hull City side slump to a third consecutive loss in the Championship.

After back-to-back home defeats to Nottingham Forest and Middlesbrough, a disastrous week was completed when the Tigers lost 4-1 at Sheffield United on Saturday.

City have now won just two of their last 11 games and a fall to 20th in the Championship represents the club’s lowest position since November 2010.

The latest collapse has invited further doubts over Slutsky’s long-term security as City’s head coach but the Russian was unfazed after his team’s surrender.

“I never worry,” he said. “If I worry about myself, I can’t then work properly. I have to really enjoy training sessions and the relationship with players. I never work just thinking about my contract. For me, that is nothing.

Leonid Slutsky is up against it as Hull City head coach (Image: Focus)

“Only a positive result can change my mood and the mood in the team.

“We can think a lot about the situation but we must do something, not just think about it.”

Asked if he had spoken with vice-chairman Ehab Allam, he added: “Each match can change situations but we spoke before and he supported me. Very important and I am thankful to him for that. But now the pressure is what I put on myself.”

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City are no strangers to defeats in a season that has so far amassed eight in 16 games but the manner of this latest setback was alarming. For all the Tigers had offered encouragement when leading through Kamil Grosicki’s first-half strike from distance, a Sheffield United equaliser early in the second half set the stage for a wretched conclusion.

Having already drawn his side level, Leon Clarke bagged another three goals inside the closing 14 minutes to ensure City’s first trip to Bramall Lane in seven years ended with an emphatic defeat.

“How we played in the first 55 minutes was okay,” said Slutsky.

Hull City head coach Leonid Slutsky (Image: Focus Images Limited)

“But I now don’t have the answer why we are two different teams. The first 55 minutes and the second 35 were different. This is not the first time we have been in this situation. For me, it is very difficult to understand.

“We have only worked together for three months I don’t have a lot of information about how they react to a stressful time. But now we have a diagnosis but we don’t have a medicine. We will find it.”

Slutsky had previously been protective of his side amid the continued failings but there was a marked change in the Russian’s language at Bramall Lane.